We’ve survived our first week back – and what a great week we’ve had being back together.

Special thanks to Mrs Cook and Primary 3 for their wonderful efforts today in tidying up our playgrounds – they had so much fun pulling weeds and cutting hedges! Thanks to Mrs Goudie and Mrs Watt for cleaning up after our very enthusiastic helpers!

Throughout this week we’ve tried various timetables and made some changes to our day-to-day running to ensure our school continues to be a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for our pupils, staff and parents/carers.

• We are continuing with our staggered start and finish times so P1/2, P3 and P5/6 will start at 9.00am/finish at 3.00pm with P2, P4/5 and P6/7 starting at 9.10am/finish 3.10pm
• We appreciate when children arrive in our school playground just before their bell rings as this avoids any confusion and mixing of classes/stages
• We are having one interval and one lunchtime now – lunches will continue to be eaten in classes and children then go out to their designated playground area. This system is working well and our pupils are being so creative with their playground equipment and games
• We have established ‘hand washing stations’ so pupils in P3, P4/5, P5/6 and P6/7 are washing their hands outside before returning to class after interval and lunch
• We have sanitisers situated throughout the school and our pupils are using them confidently and regularly
• Pupils are encouraged to bring a bottle of water with them to drink from throughout the day in class, as well as a snack/drink for interval/lunch
• Pupils don’t need to bring a bag to school – all necessary resources will be provided by the school
• We are delighted to welcome Miss Harrigan, a COVID Recovery teacher employed by EAC, to our school every Thursday and Friday throughout this term. She will be working alongside our teaching staff to assess learning and set individual targets for pupils as we continue to ease back into our learning and teaching programmes.

Have a lovely weekend – see you all on Monday.

Mrs Govans